Class Quote by Susan Cain

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

— Susan Cain

“Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the…

— Susan Cain

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

— Susan Cain

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side…

— Susan Cain

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where…

— Susan Cain

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between…

— Susan Cain

“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act out of…

— Susan Cain

“Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of…

— Susan Cain

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

— Susan Cain

“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act out of…

— Susan Cain

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration…

— Susan Cain

“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act out of…

— Susan Cain